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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2014-02-25 21:05:34 +0100 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2014-02-27 17:07:39 +0100 |
| commit | c5f9ee3d665a7660b296aa1e91949ae3376f0d07 (patch) | |
| tree | 1312ff6f48732ff251f40a63f8147453d6d4cf8f /Documentation/sgi-visws.txt | |
| parent | x86, apic: Remove support for IBM Summit/EXA chipset (diff) | |
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x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation
The SGI Visual Workstation seems to be dead; remove support so we
don't have to continue maintaining it.
Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Cc: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/530CFD6C.7040705@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt b/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7ff0811ca2ba..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sgi-visws.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ - -The SGI Visual Workstations (models 320 and 540) are based around -the Cobalt, Lithium, and Arsenic ASICs. The Cobalt ASIC is the -main system ASIC which interfaces the 1-4 IA32 cpus, the memory -system, and the I/O system in the Lithium ASIC. The Cobalt ASIC -also contains the 3D gfx rendering engine which renders to main -system memory -- part of which is used as the frame buffer which -is DMA'ed to a video connector using the Arsenic ASIC. A PIIX4 -chip and NS87307 are used to provide legacy device support (IDE, -serial, floppy, and parallel). - -The Visual Workstation chipset largely conforms to the PC architecture -with some notable exceptions such as interrupt handling. |